Anthony's Digital Notes

Color Coding Key: Personal Life Political Life Social/ Historical Context

Source Information: This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hammer. 2015. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/webcast-7049
1)	Hammer spoke at the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health in 1969. She influenced the anti-poverty and food assistance programs that became law.
2)	She noted that many White and Black children were starving in Mississippi and gave pigs away from what people referred to as the “pig bank.”
3)	Hammer fought against police brutality.

Source Information: “Testimony Before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention,” Atlantic City, New Jersey: August 22, 1964. Recording. Retrieved from Willamette.edu.
1)	Hammer describes registering as first-class citizens on August 1962 and her bus driver being charged with “driving the wrong color.”
2)	Hammer mentioned that someone wanted her dead and fired shots into her home on September 10, 1962.
3)	On June 9, 1963 Hammer was arrested and beaten in her jail cell.
4)	Hammer said, “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?”

Source Information: “Examination of Black Female Grass Roots Leaders in Mississippi during the 1960s: Annie Devine, Fannie Lou Hamer and Annie Rankin.” Author: Jaqueline A. Rouse. Published in the Negro History Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1/4, 2000, pp. 23–30. JSTOR, Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/44985762 on 27 May 2020.
1)	In 1964, Fannie Lou Hammer tried to run for Congress from the Second Congressional District and was not allowed on the regular ballot.
2)	The Freedom Summer of 1964 was a massive undertaking of college students, civil rights workers, lawyers, doctors, ministers, and others to urge African Americans in Mississippi to register to vote and inform them of their rights as U.S. citizens.
3)	Hammer’s family were sharecroppers. “For 42 years Fannie Lou Hammer lived and worked on a plantation” (P.26)